10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAN TRACERY»
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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Medieval fan-tracery only occurs in England; grid-tracery: with a grid ofmullions
and transoms, common in late-Gothic and early *Renaissance windows, often
found in grand *Elizabethan and *Jacobean houses, e.g. Hardwick Hall, Derbys.
2
Chambers's encyclopædia: a dictionary of universal knowledge ...
Fan-tracery is a very beautiful kind of vaulting, and is peculiar to England, where
it originated, and where alone it was practiced. Among the finest examples are
Henry VII.'s Chapel at Westminster ; St. George's, Windsor ; nnd King's College ...
3
Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
Cambridge 1 1508-15) fan tracery, fanwork Tracery on the soffit of a vault whose
ribs radiate like the ribs of a fan. I'anum 1. An ancient Roman plot of ground
which had been consecrated to some divinity. 2. A temple that was erected on
such a ...
4
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: Dictionary of Universal Knowledge ...
FAN-TRACERY VAULTING— FARADAY. nothing. They are, however, supported
with great. FANNERS, a machine employed to winnow grain. In passing through
the machine, the grain is rapidly agitated in a sieve, and falling through a strong ...
5
Lectures on Church-building: with Some Practical Remarks on ...
Fan Tracery Roofs. 109 detail what are the particular visible characteristics of it
which they are prepared to maintain against the visible characteristics of the
Early styles, especially the Geometrical, which contains everything that is to be
found ...
Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe, 1856
6
Architect's Illustrated Pocket Dictionary
... by one man without moving from his place; also called peacock tail or fan
pattern. fantail paving fantail tool see fishtail chisel. fan tracery, fanwork; Gothic
blind tracery found on the surface of fan vaulting. fan truss a triangular roof truss
whose ...
Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi, 2012
7
Church of Notre Dame in Montreal: An Architectural History
Notre-Dame O'Donnell proposed to simulate recessions by applying a network of
fan tracery to the ceiling. Areas crowded with tracery would seem to project;
areas relatively free of tracery would seem to recede (Plate 19). When lack of
funds ...
In the so-called fan-tracery roof, that was the culmination of this distinctive form of
vaulting, the entire surface of the roof is covered with radiating ribs resembling
the sections of an outspread fan, connected by bands of trefoil or quatrefoil ...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of ...
Hitherto we have spoken chiefly of arches and windows, but we must now briefly
advert to the roof, at least to one species of vaulting used for it, peculiar to the
florid class of this style, we mean that consisting of fan-tracery, so called from the
...
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Architectural notes on German Churches; with remarks on the ...
Note on Fan-Tracery Roofs. xxxiii spaces in the roof bounded by the diverging
veins and the concentric bands, are the pannels of the vaulting. The detail of the
vaulting will depend upon the number and position of the diverging veins.
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Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the …
Albert, her father, was a stonemason who had worked on the fan tracery of Bath Abbey. Her mother, Emma, was a skilled storyteller and passed ... «The Sunday Times, Feb 14»
